Automatic fish-hook striker.



C. A. WYMORE. AUTOMATIC FISH HOOK STRIKER.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 10. 1914.

1,148,810. Patented Aug. 3,1915.

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AUTOMATIC FISH-HOOK STBIKER.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Aug. 3, 1915.

Application filed June 10, 1914. Serial No. 844,372.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, Cass A. WYMORE, a citizenof the United States, residing at Long Beach, in the county of LosAngeles and State of California, have invented a new and usefulAutomatic Fish Hook Striker, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in strikersfor fish hooks asattached to spoons and the like; and the object of my invention is toprovide a device which will eliminate the necessity for setting thestriking mechanism after each strike, the restoration of the mechanismto normal being automatically accomplished when the tension on the lineis released.

Other objects may appear description following.

I attain this object by means of the mechanism illustrated in theaccompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a plan of my device attachedto a spoon; Fig. 2 is asectional elevation on the line 22, Fig. 1; andFig. 3 is a sectional elevation on the line 3-3, Fig; 1.

Similar characters of reference indicate the same parts throughout thespecifications and the several views of the drawings.

1 is a spoon of a commonly used type, upon which I mount my strikermechanism which comprises a lever 2 pivoted at one end on a wire 3, theends 4: of the wire being bent downwardly and riveted to the spoon 1 onopposite sides of the longitudinal center line. The wire 3 is providedwith a collar 5 on each side of the lever 2 and the spoon 1 is providedwith a slot 6 beneath the collars 5 and the end of the lever 2 to permitthe free movement of the lever therein. The outer end of the lever 2 hasa perforation 7 in which is secured the loop 8 on acommon fish hook 9,the outer end of the hook eX- tends through and is slidable in asuitable slot 10 in one end of the spoon 1, and the central portion ofthe hook is adapted to rest on the end of the lever 2 between thecollars 5 when the mechanism is normal, and a lateral movement of thehook is thus prevented. The extreme end of the lever 2 to which the hookis secured is formed at an angle to themain body of the lever, andslightly below the perforation 7 is another perforation 11 in which issecured a loop 12 in the detailed on a wire rod 13 which is slidable inthe spoon 1 through a suitable slot 14: and the outer end of which isprovided with a loop 15 by means of which a line may be secured to therod 13.

When a line is attached to the rod 13 and is in tension, the mechanismwill be held in normal position, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, but when afish attacks the bait on the hook 9, the hook will be jerked outwardlyfrom the spoon, through the slot 10, the lever 2 will be turned on itsfulcrum until its outer end rests on the floor of the spoon l, and therod 13 will be drawn inwardly through the slot 14. Thus the mechanismwill yield to the attack on the bait until the movement of the hook andlever is stopped by the engagement of the lever with the floor of thespoon, and the instant that the hook is released by the fish the tensionon the line will cause the restoration of the hook and lever to theirnormal position without withdrawing the line from the water andre-setting the lever, which is necessary in other types of strikingdevices.

It is obvious that my mechanism may be attached to any of the commontypes of spoons, or it may be made as a unit with any form of spoon suchas are commonly used.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desireLetters Patent for, is:

1. A device of the character described including a spoon provided with alever pivot.- ed thereto and in normal parallel relation with the fioorthereof, a hook normally parallel with and secured to said lever andprotruding through a suitable slot in the floor of said spoon andmovably disposed therein, and a link secured at one end to said leverand at the other to a line and slidably disposed in a slot in theopposite end of said spoon from said hook; the normal relation of saidhook, spoon and lever being maintained when said line is taut, and saidhook being movableoutwardly from said spoon when said line is slack.

2. A device of the character described including a spoon provided with alever pivotally mounted on the floor thereof, a hook longitudinallydisposed in said spoon, pivotally secured to said lever and movablelongitudinally of and outwardly from said spoon, guiding means for saidhook, and of the hook and lever being accomplished line connecting meansfor said lever for norwhen a strike takes place.

mally maintainin said lever in a substantially horizontal iiosition andsaid hook in CASS WYMORE' its innermost position when the line is tautWitnesses: and for restoring sald hook and lever to ANNE HARTENSTEIN,normal posltlon after a strlke, the movement CHARLES H. WILD.

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